Kitap 14
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Some of the Rhodians settled in the neighbourhood of Sybaris, in the Chonian territory.Strabo here omits to mention the Rhodian origin of Agrigentum and Gela in Sicily. Homer seems to bear evidence of the former prosperity of the Rhodians, from the very foundation of the three cities; they settled according to their tribes, in three companies, and were the favourites of Jupiter, who showered upon them great wealth.Il. ii. 668. Other writers have applied these verses to a fable, according to which, at the birth of Minerva, it rained gold on the island from the head of Jupiter, as Pindar has said.Ol. vii. 61.
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The island is 920 stadia in circumference.
2.11
In sailing from the city, and leaving the island on the right hand, the first place we meet with is Lindus,Lindo. a city situated on a mountain extending far towards the south, and particularly towards Alexandreia (in Egypt).According to Strabo, Alexandria and Rhodes were upon the same meridian. There is here a celebrated temple of the Lindian Diana, built by the Danaides. Formerly, the Lindians, like the inhabitants of Cameirus,Camiro. and Ialyssus, formed an independent state, but afterwards they all settled at Rhodes.
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Cleobulus, one of the seven wise men, was a native of Lindus.
